Today, I met someone really cool and their departing words were, for some odd reason, "We should totally be friends, I mean unless you're schizophrenic or something, haha!" I have schizophrenia. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I overcame my lack of social confidence and got a date for the first time in 10 or so years. After a while, my date admitted that she's a schizophrenic with dissociative identity disorder. I guess it's back to being single. FML
Today, I was talking to people around school to make new friends. I met an amazing guy and we really hit it off. He was fantastic in every way, but decided to end our conversation with, "We shall meet in the afterlife!" I don't know if I should be scared or not. FML
Today, my psychiatrist said, "Well, good luck." at the end of my appointment. FML
Today, I met the family of the guy I’m seeing, and they are all amazing. I’m scared to tell him I have a schizophrenic mum and a raging alcoholic dad. FML
Today, I was trying to make a good impression with my fiancé's friends. After a few hours, I thought all was going well. As I walked to the washroom, I heard, "So what disability does she have? No one can be like that without something wrong in their brain." FML
Today, I met my new college room-mate. He then introduced me to his imaginary friend. FML
Today, I went to a friend's sweet sixteen. Since I didn't know any else at the party I was really happy when the mother told me she sat me next to someone she thought I would have a lot in common with. He ended up being mentally challenged and talked to a sock puppet the whole party. FML
Today, I was waiting for my girlfriend, I wanted to have a serious talk about her hypochondria. She called to cancel because she was (self) diagnosed with some sort of 'neurological disorder'. FML
Today, I was alone in my dorm room rehearsing comments to make in my writing class tomorrow. I grew up with a severe stutter, and rehearsing like this is one of the ways I keep my speech under control. What I didn't plan on was my roommate walking in. I think she now thinks I'm schizophrenic. FML
Today, I met a cute guy for coffee. Everything was going fine, right up until he started telling me about his alien encounters and super psychic powers. FML
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VonGore 6
People are so ignorant about mental disorders. They assume that if you have DID, schizophrenia, bi-polar, etc. that you're automatically "Crazy." Sorry to hear that OP. I concur with the odd departing words as well. Who says that? lol
doubleddun 9
I'm sure he's just making a failed attempt at a joke
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Comments (110)
Roevera 14
Watch out OP, he's on to you! Or is he?
onlychildFTW 34
It doesn't sound like OP has been found out. Play it cool OP! Don't be their friend OP. you can do better.
patrickalamo 48
And that someone is watching you when you sleep.
laden_swallow09 35
Schizophrenia and paranoia are different.
JerryH 9
Yes 45. But what evidence do we have that OP isn't a paranoid schizophrenic?
Meettitan 14
46- What evidence do we have that OP isn't a sea monster?
Soloman212 28
47, OP didn't ask for three and a half American dollars.
Meettitan 14
56- So about "Tree fiddy?"
Wow_FYL_BIZNITCH 7
He isn't a real person...
preps87 0
It was obviously a joke. Not a very nice one, but I'm sure the person wouldn't have said that if he/she knew op was a schizo.
livvyluvlaf 8
Why does everyone assume this person she met is a guy?
cravend 2
#90, Cause nobody is gay or lesbian on the internet apparently
silentxninja 13
Op is not a "schizo," she is just a person who happens to have schizophrenia. People shouldn't classify a person because of their mental health disorders. OP is just a person, who happens to have schizophrenia.
doubleddun 9
I'm sure he's just making a failed attempt at a joke
llamafish 25
And a failed attempt at making a friend.
denden_mushi 11
16 - I'm sure they can still be friends. Plus, this might be a great way for them to learn about the condition so they don't make stupid comments like this again.
itsharkley 8
He probably meant "unless you're a psycho killer who connects numbers to terrorist attacks" Erm- are you?
trollcrusher 17
I'm sure it was just a joke, as you said. Perhaps it was a compliment? He may have meant that OP had such a great personality, he was afraid that OP would change personalities.... No, still a crappy joke.
imavelociraptor 6
Maybe OP imagined the person O.o
VonGore 6
People are so ignorant about mental disorders. They assume that if you have DID, schizophrenia, bi-polar, etc. that you're automatically "Crazy." Sorry to hear that OP. I concur with the odd departing words as well. Who says that? lol
xNephilim 19
Well, you can hardly hold it against people... People are fed absolute crap about schizophrenia and other mental disorders... Dr. Phil and Oprah had this family on their respective shows... Their child had the worst case of schizophrenia that the doctors have ever seen in someone that young. The child's behavior WAS crazy. It was intense and it was scary and it made it seem like that's what schizophrenia is always like. My boyfriend has a mild case of it that was way worse when he was young... He would have a little pet mouse that followed him around and told him to do "bad things". He eventually grew out of that, though. He still has his moments but nothing like seeing people or pet mice. He sees the occasional shadow and hears the occasional noise, but that's pretty much it. Most people with schizophrenia eventually learn to live with it... Or get medicated to a point where it hardly bothers them anymore. But the regular folk don't know that. They believe all the crap on TV.
Epikouros 32
I'm a little schizophrenic and I never had any hallucinations. Unless I smoked a lot of pot. It's a complicated syndrome. The test for diagnosing schizophrenia had 12 dimensions, if I remember correctly. Only paranoia and dissociation (feeling detached from yourself) applied to me.
_wraith 15
I won't pretend to understand the much about the disorder but I know that my ex is a paranoid schizophrenic and that he did have hallucinations and heard voices (pre-medication). We're still friends and we hang out, but prior to his medication and diagnosis he declined abruptly into bizarre (and on one occasion, dangerous) behavior. He had been living with it for years without ever telling anyone, and the doctors said he had a pretty strong mind to live with it for as long as he did. A long-winded response, I know. In short I agree with you guys - people aren't crazy just because they have schizophrenia or are bi-polar or the like.
lyncecelia 13
I suffer from bipolar and have had similar reactions. Or worse, the idiots who say its not a real disorder and I'm making it up. I don't tell anyone anymore in real life unless they need to know because the stigma against it is SO vast. You can thank a lot of crime shows for that too. Any episode I've seen (mind you its been few) the criminal has a mental illness.
lindora 35
This reminds me of when I was with my 3 guy friends who are all schizophrenic, and this pretty woman came up to us for a light. She felt weird because my friends kept staring at her, and she casually mentioned that she felt like a schizo. It was really awkward after that.
weatherxveins 29
People are dumb. A similar thing happened to me once with bipolar. I actually did become friends with the person and never told them.
kay71095 9
Schizophrenia isn't something to joke about. My father has it very bad, and people's don't know what hell he goes through
Fsvb 32
@63 I'm sorry to say that this is actually kind of true. A lot of criminals do have mental issues, but that doesn't make them criminals. It's just a part that could 'help' them get there. And with 'mental issues' I mostly mean condcut disorders and anti-social disorders (not sure if I'm naming them right, I learn about this in Dutch..). But it could also mean completely different things, like a lower IQ, autism, ADHD. But there often is something mental.
dalink 24
Conduct disorder - diagnosed before the age of 18 but is a requirement for having antisocial personality disorder (cluster b). Just if anyone wanted some clarification. Btw I also have a cockatiel that looks just like your derp!
MissCharlotte_fml 26
6- THANK YOU!!! I am a schizophrenic and have had so many ignorant comments directed at me- people asking me if I had ever tried to kill someone, people acusing me of "faking it" just to get attention, and boyfriends break up with me because I am a "crazy bitch", and even people telling me that I am possessed. You are so right, it is shows that show the extreme types of schizophrenia and then makes people think we are all like that.
conholio33 28
Sorry to hear that OP....
PleaseStayChill 9
Maybe they don't exist, and the only reason they mentioned schizophrenia is that it's a projection of your subconscious mind and you actually hate yourself so you subconsciously projected a personality that would dislike you because of schizophrenia into that person.. But I wouldn't think too hard about it...
boofgall 16
This is appealing to read.
gabrayal 10
I can actually imagine that in House's voice.
s15c 9
I feel like this is ridiculously stupid but somehow still makes sense...
Sir_Loin257 4
This comment sounds alot like the movie Fight Club
nmlutgen 11
Hahaha WIN!
dre9889 4
Inception
Razi_tail 25
I seriously had to read that twice very carefully to get what you were saying PleaseStayChill! XD
tarasdp 6
Hate to be " that person" but maybe they're a figment of your imagination. My brother has schizophrenia and this happens to him a lot....
SoulSair 11
I have schizophrenia firsthand and I can call bullshit about your brother right now. I doubt you even have one.
Demonfish 14
Don't worry about it OP, he was probably just attempting at humour, and failed horribly. I'm sure that if you told him that you do have schizophrenia, you'd both be able to laugh off the whole situation :)
xXHollowIchigoXx 17
OP - "Lol, I do have schizophrenia!" Cool person - "Hahahaha, you're so funny!" OP - "Yeah... But seriously... I have schizophrenia" Cool person - "…"
spottyblanket 8
He didn't know op, don't write him off just yet. He may turn out to be a really good, who will probably be mortified when he realises what he said. Give him a chance, it was a slip of the tounge, we all make mistakes.
xXHollowIchigoXx 17
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Maybe your mind conjured said person up, and because the mind is a sick bastard, it made this conjured person mention schizophrenia to **** with you. *Mind Blown* *Mindception*
SenselessPattern 12
Doctor House came up with that theory already. Go read through all back-related injuries from A - Z again, Chase.
tj4234 36
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Well look at it this way OP. Now both of you can be friends with him :).
SanpakuEyes 18
You apparently have no idea what schizophrenia is. It is not having more than one personality. Try Googling it and educate yourself so you don't continue to spread your misinformation.
KiddNYC1O 22
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I don't see why you need to get down his throat for that.
SApprentice 34
35- 14 was wrong, and does need to be better informed. 15 wasn't even being rude about it. They were just trying to be helpful by attempting to correct misconceptions like that. Mental health discussions have the potential to be harmful if the parties involved start making thoughtless comments.
KiddNYC1O 22
Touché.
tj4234 36
you guys seriously need to learn to tell when someone is joking >.>.
OneGirlsLife 20
You need to learn to make good jokes.